Started in 1845
Closed in 1918
Round Prairie Church organized July the first in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty five, by appointing the following persons to the office of Eldership to wit: John P. Bayless, Samuel Wood, and Hiram Daughtery and John Nesbit as Deacon at the same time. About eighteen forty nine, John Wm. Keller was added to the list of Elders and resigned in 1854 and Johnson McGilvary and W.S. Spruill was ordained Elders, and Levi Miller and William Nesbit was ordained as Deacons at the same time.
Johnson McGilvary went off in the Army in 1862, and died. In 1874, there was added to the Eldership Peter C. Randle and Albert S. Fairchild and Benjamin Mize and William Soapes to the Deaconship, Elder Fairchild moved his membership and died March 12, 1881.
Nov. 26, 1859 Held a school meeting this day at the meeting house in District No. 7 and selected a site for a school house and the site selected is in the south west corner of the south west quarter of the north west quarter of Section 35 Township 7, Range 7. Also on the same day and date agreed to put a house on the site above named. House to be sixteen feet square and to spend fifty dollars for material or as much of that sum as may be needed.
Signed by
Benjamin Mize, Clerk of the Meeting
(Church
was closed about the year 1918, thanks to Helen Mize for saving these records.
Master copy at the Bunker Hill Public Library)